This bibliography of Donald Trump is a list of written and published works, by and about

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45 ...

, the 45th and 47th

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. Due to the sheer volume of books about Trump, the titles listed here are limited to non-fiction books about Trump or his presidency, published by notable authors and scholars. Tertiary sources (including textbooks and juvenile literature), satire, and self-published books are excluded. Prior to his 2016 campaign, Trump was widely known by the American public and media establishment, and was already the focus of many books describing his life as a businessman, media personality, and politician. Biographer

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observed in '' Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success'' (2015) that Trump "has been a topic of conversation in America for almost 40 years. No one in the world of business – not Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Warren Buffett – has been as famous as Trump for as long." Almost one year after his inauguration as president, ''

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'' noted that more than 4,500 English-language books about Trump had been published since he took office, compared to just over 800 works about Trump's predecessor

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during his first year in office. This "Trump bump" for the U.S. publishing industry, as ''

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'' put it, persisted throughout his time in office. But afterwards, demand for books about his presidency dropped off sharply. Trump's first published book in 1987 was '' Trump: The Art of the Deal'', written by

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Tony Schwartz. Trump made a practice of hiring ghostwriters and co-authors to write his books. In some cases the ghostwriters are credited on the cover, while in other instances, including ''

Time to Get Tough ''Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again'' is a non-fiction book by Donald Trump. It was published in hardcover format by Regnery Publishing in 2011, and reissued under the title ''Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!'' in 2015 to ma ...

'' (2011) and ''

Crippled America ''Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again'' is a non-fiction book by businessman (and later 45th and 47th president of the United States) Donald Trump, first published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster in 2015. A revised edition was ...

'' (2015), Trump makes mention of the writer's contributions in the acknowledgements sections. Works written by Trump himself include

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books, political policy treatises, and

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. "...Schwartz has noted that, during the year and a half that they worked together on ''The Art of the Deal'', he never saw a single book in Trump's office or apartment. Yet Trump has taken authorial credits on more than a dozen books to date, and, given that he's a proven marketing master, it's inconceivable that he won't try to sell more." ''

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'' journalist Carlos Lozada observed that a continuous theme throughout Trump's written works is a focus on Trump himself, such as citing examples from his business in

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and work on television. Parties and individuals discussed in books by Trump are reduced to a

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, according to Lozada: "Trump's world is binary, divided into class acts and total losers." Trump often makes use of

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to illustrate his points in his works. In other books, Trump repeats the same stories of what he views as key successes from his business career; for example, a tale about a 1980s business deal improving the

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, New York. Trump's published writings shifted post-2000, from generally memoirs about himself to books giving advice about finance.

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